open terminal window with python

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On Windows, the python subprocess command to open a cmd window is simply:

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen('cmd.exe')

Can anyone tell me what the command to open the cmd equivalent in Linux is? I'm going to be copying some python code from my Windows machine to my Raspberry Pi and am new to Linux - I know that this line of code won't open the terminal on a Linux OS the same way it will on Windows.

Thanks in advance!

Just out of curiosity, what is the end goal of doing this? Usually, you pass shell=True to execute shell commands from Python. I recognize that might not be your end-goal, however, so that might not be helpful to you. — jstarr
– jstarr, Commented Apr 30, 2020 at 23:13

TheTisiboth · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-30 23:06:58Z

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Replace cmd.exe with gnome-terminal in order to open a terminal on Linux

answered Apr 30, 2020 at 23:06

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jstarr Over a year ago

Or xfce4-terminal on XFCE or konsole on KDE, etc.

TheTisiboth Over a year ago

Yes, I was assuming that @Olivier Holland was using a standard distribution ;)

tdelaney · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-30 23:16:07Z

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Different distros use different terminal programs. xterm should work on just about everything, so you could Popen('xterm') and then require the people figure out how to get xterm on their system if its not there by default.

answered Apr 30, 2020 at 23:16

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